[Resettozero]

...the only Christians there for the first 1,600 years of Christianity.

RCC and similar churches were visible all along. Have you considered the invisible aspect of the "underground" of believers in what little of the Gospel of Jesus Christ they had heard, the persecuted and outcasts from the RCC?

[terycarl]

RCC and similar churches were visible all along. Have you considered the invisible aspect of the "underground" of believers in what little of the Gospel of Jesus Christ they had heard, the persecuted and outcasts from the RCC?

nonsense...for the first 1,600 years of Christianity, ALL Christians were Catholic...there were no other "denominations". When the so called reformation took place, people who were drawn away from the church and formed their own so called "denominations"